How Are You Solving Problems?
March 30, 2009 by Sharon Wilson
Filed under 30-Day Empowered Spiritualpreneur Challenge
Going through all of these lessons with you on the 30 Day Empowered Spiritualpreneur Challenge, I keep
remembering how it all began…
I used to work in corporate sales, and I was really very good at what I did – but I often felt like something was missing.
Most of these processes came from those same seeds that were sown years ago when I was in that place. I wasn’t as connected or really trusting that connection then, but I was asking (even before I knew I was asking) and I was getting glimmers of all these things that eventually evolved into what you are learning now.
The Problem/Solution Template covered in the most recent Lessons posted in the 30 Day Empowered Spiritualpreneur Challenge came about because of my own frustrations with trying to use the scripted sales material that I was being taught and expected to use.
There were all these scripts written on how to engage people and how to get to their pain and how to overcome their objections.
And the agenda that is at the core of those scripts is always to get YOU to do what I WANT you to do.
It always felt very uncomfortable to me, because I didn’t feel like I was being genuine.
Even when the script worked, it didn’t feel the best. I would think, “How do I even know if this is something they even want or even need?” It was all about just kind of regurgitating this pushy, scripted process.
I just always had this feeling that there HAD to be
a better way…
It’s the same with all of these tools – they came to me because of my own contrast and my own challenges and my own misalignment with the accepted way of doing things – the feeling in the pit of my stomach that this just doesn’t feel right – that there had to be a better way.
I knew that if I could just help people connect that really did ultimately want and need what I had that I would be an answer to their prayer and they would be an answer to mine.
So I started asking, “How can I do that?”
One of the things that I really wanted to was to shift the perception of being across the desk from someone to moving over to the other side of the desk, sitting down beside them and putting my arm around them.
I began visualizing – “How would I want someone to connect with me if they had something that would potentially be of use to me?”
That was a big part of it – there was a lot of Inner work that needed to be done within myself in my beliefs
about selling and my beliefs about my abilities and values as someone that was providing a service or product.
When that Inner work was in place, the next step was really about putting myself in the other person’s shoes.
But how could I know what it was like to be in their shoes unless I fully got into their shoes? And that’s what the Problem/Solution Template is all about.
It helps you to get into the full energy of “the shoes” – the head, the heart, and the energy of your ideal client. You’re now making an energetic, telepathic connection – literally accelerating the ability for your ideal client to find you by putting out this beacon of energy that you know what they are going through.
So much of sales process that is taught is about bringing barriers down, but in my experience, if you don’t have barriers in the first place, you never have to bring them down!
When you really turn selling into serving, it becomes an energetic, coaching oriented process that starts
with the Problem/Solution Template – a co-creational energy that exists between you and those you want to serve with your product or service.
I want you to know that everything that I am giving you in the 30 Day Empowered Spiritualpreneur Challenge is something that I use for myself, with my clients, and in my programs.
These tools really work – they are all field tested – and putting them to use in an effective way in your
life and business ultimately comes down to making the shift in what is possible and really being willing to do the Inner work that is the foundation for everything in the Challenge.
Hold the Intention for that now as you proceed to the next lessons in the Challenge, and really use the
Problem/Solution Template to it’s full potential in getting into the head and heart of your Ideal customer or client.
You could be the answer to someone’s prayer that is waiting for you right now!
Don’t forget to visit the Spiritualpreneur Forum and share your Intentions!
http://spiritualpreneurs.com/forum




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